@@Brekstahkid I'm just stating the proper way to fix a leak. You're right, nothing is free.

If the refrigerant is completely recovered the system is technically open and a filter drier should be replaced as well.

@@BurntLemmons You’re correct yes

Him 😂😂😂😂

Our outfit charges $35/lb…$100 is WOW 🤯

Exactly

Any major appliances I use the 8 to 12 year rage, you got your value from it. And would consider replacing. But fixing is always an option.

you can fix, but if you put new equipment on old systems, the life of the equipment will be much shorter than if it was on a new system. Also especially with home warranty work, recalls happen a lot more when you just complete the repair.

We need more real honest trade guys like you. Please breed and multiply🙏

That's about what I'd charge for this job. Good call.

We're all supertechs, of course if that was your house you would fix that because you have a skill that others don't, but what does it cost to keep the system going? Cost of the repair now, energy cost, along with Future maintenance & repairs etc.

@Salvador Bribiesca It all depends on overall shape of the equipment. In most cases it wont pay to fix an old r22 system. Most people right now can't afford just to just shell out thousands of dollars for a new system.

I would fix the R-22 system if it is still in decent shape, my cousin's house still has the Janitrol that came with the house (built in 1970)

​@fastlife866 Most people can't afford a new one. This is a real easy repair. Max 1 hour of work. This is 410A.

@@fastlife866 most people can afford everything else in life it's priorities people live beyond the means they have

R407C or R22b. That unit will out last the new stuff

@zack9912000 R22. Still had plastic caps on the compressor.

100 dollars for refrigerant. Well R410a cost 450 dollars for a 25 lbs canister which is 18 dollars per pound. Where the fuck does this guy comes off charging 100 dollars per pound. These people are ripping people off left and right.

@@phillipterrrazas575 I hear you. I can be pretty handy. I am not rich yet fairly well off so I can afford to pay someone to come out and fix stuff. Yet most things can be fixed with low costing parts. I know a number of people who have been ripped off over and over. Had a friend who had a water heater problem. You know the kind that blink the light when there is a problem. Most times the cost is around 30 dollars to 200 dollars for a thermocoupler or control valve. The company came in and said they needed to replace it and it would be 1500 dollars. I told them to relight it and tell me the code. It was a thermocoupler which cost her 30 dollars online and about an hour installing it. Works fine and she ended up calling the company and complaining. Not like that did anything. Another friend had her furnace quit working and it was the same type of sales call where they said her furnace was shot and recommneded replacing it. I told her what the problem was by reading the code off the furnace and she fixed it. You can find a ton of these things on social media where people ask their friends who would you call and so on. Most times I do not see them till a day later or when they complain about the cost to fix them. That when I chime in. Several years ago another friend of mine was having furnace problems and they are on propane and the temperature was in the negative 40s for a couple of weeks and she was having all kinds of problems. She called a numeber of places and they told her over the phone that it would be in the thousands to replace her furnace as it is broken. The problem was her propane was so cold that it could not build up pressure to which I instructed her to tell her husband to go out and start the tractor and take a bunch of large square bales and out them around their propane tank and he did it and by the end of the day her heat slowly came back. He was able to run an extension cord and heat lamp out to the propane tank and got it to warm up quite well. He built a shed that he can push around the the tank and there is now electric out at the tank to provide heat if it ever gets that cold again. People get robbed all the time. This old guy I knew had a freezer that had an fridge ice machine that stopped working. He had some type of insurance that you can buy where they will fix your appliances if they break. They come with a one time fee for service and it was I think 100 bucks or something. He was telling me about it and how he was going to wait till the first of the month to have them come out. So whyile I was there I looked at the ice machine and it was one of those really cheap basic ones you can order on amazon for like 50 bucks, I ordered one and it came before the first of the month and I installed it in 10 mins. As its just a couple co screws, a plug wire and the drip line thing. I mean they are so simple he said he could have done it. He paid me at the first of the month and thanked me for saving him that money. I fear that older people get taken advantage of a lot more than people think. One of my older neighbors fears owning credit cards, debit cards and does not know how to shop online. Though they seem to be able to use the internet pretty well. Their fear is that amazon charges a lot of money to ship. I have clearly shown her that they do not. I have ordered things for her online. Though last year she ordered a fridge from a local place in which she paid 2k for a fridge that sells for 1k at home depot. Her fridge went to a local repair man and was sold online as her fridge had a dent in the bottom door from hitting a cabinet door handle all the time. We went and looked at it and ask him if there had been any repairs and old it was and how long did he have it. He said that just fixed a loose wire that had gotten loose and he bought it off some old lady who got a new one. That guy got a ear full. They repaired and sell new and used. He wanted 500 dollars for the fridge. I see this stuff happen all the time. Even here on youtube I have seen a bunch of shorts where people toss dryers, washers for common parts that need to be replaced. Water control valve univeral sells for less than 30 dollars on amazon/ebay and are almost direct replacements. Washer pumps, door micro switches. Dryers end up plugged up with lint. One of my spare dryers I got for free had this problem to which I got from a neighbor who asked me if I would help move the old ones out and the new ones in. I asked what was wrong with it and she said it heats up then stops. Took me 30 mins to take the back off and suck out the lint and it worked just fine. She still replaced them with new units. I do not think these units were 10 years old at the time.

I went on a call yesterday and the “tech” before me could not replace the disconnect because it was “high voltage”…Flipping idiot, it’s the same voltage as the AC unit next to it!! I am really getting tired of idiots, crooks and thieves!

@@phillipterrrazas575I haven’t worked in over 2 years because of a surgery I had and people still call me asking if I can come back because they hate their new company. Stay honest and you get the best customers for life.

Resetting the breaker isn't fixing the unit.

I agree. I did see a little oil but for content sake, I wanted to use the leak detector.

yeah i charge 150$ up to corect sh or sc

R410a is 18 dollars per pound when you buy a 25 pound canister. FFS why they hell are you charging 100 dollars. This is where you make your money by charging 100 dollars for something that is 18 dollars. Had someone come in a couple of years ago to replace one of those condensate pumps and they charged me 150 dollars just for the pump. The fucker left the box that came from amazon, so before I paid him I bought the exact same pump box and all unopened and went to their offices and handed them their trash box and all then told them that I would not be paying the 150 dollars for the pump. I will pay what I paid for the pump. Which was right around 50 dollars. I showed him the unopened box and then his box that the pump came in. I then told him that I am going to take out a nice size add in the local paper that show that you the owner of the company have been ripping people off for who knows how long. He begged me not to do that and said he would refund everyone in the last 2 years and to give him a week to get everything to gatherered. Took him a bit over a week to send me a copy of about 50 ish names with statments of the original order price and then the price they paid and a copy of every check. I called about 10 of them and asked if they got refunds and they all said yes. They are not happy with me. Seen the guy a couple months back at a local eatery in which they were not willing to stop and say something. I still have that brand new pump and will just replace it if it ever fails again. I also do not take kindly to people ripping me off. I was willing to pay their service fee of 100 dollars due to where I live yet not the over charging me. I am well off enough that something petty like that I will blow 1000 dollars just to prove a point. I even went as far as to hire a lawyer to take someone to small claims court because they failed to adhear to a written agreement. So much that they complied almost right away. The lawyer had done next to nothing so they did not charge me. I got what I wanted. So do not ever try and rip me off because you will regret it.

My company charged me $150 a lb for r410a today

@@scottlanier5133 What do you mean by your company. You post is a bit unclear. HVAC people tend to rip people off.

@@kameljoe21 I meant the company that came out in service in my unit today

Yeah but 100$? Per pound

​@@jtalonrider4769what is the correct price??

Plus he is asking 100 dollar per pound on something that cost 18... What a fucking rip off.

100$ is way to high

You have a wonderful opportunity to undercut him and take the client away. Go and fix it.

It looked like an easy repair at a process stub to me.

It looked like an easy repair on a low side process stub to me. Pump that thing down and hit it with some 15%. 1 hour.

100 bucks a lbs for 410a is robbery. I would keep that to myself in the future. lmao

@@saltvpn671 I thought it was high as well. It’s okay to make a little money but that’s high.

@@Salyers-Family-2004 They paid 18-20 bucks a pound for 410. Tops.

Fieldpiece DR82

Thank you

That coil is cooper

@@jtalonrider4769 it’s a aluminum spine fin coil. Not copper. It does have some copper connections tho

16-24k. This cant be a home. That is outrage. Tell them you dont want the top tier unit. Just a simple one. Nothing communicating Trust me.

You can't get a great heat pump for $4-5k. How does it cost 10-20k to install what is not even a days labor???

If my prices where that high I'd be rich as f

@GoSuM23 for me a standard 5t rheem is like 10k roughly. Idk were 16 even comes from. Let alone 24. We just bid out a 10t trane rtu with curb for 18k lol. I guess if they fling a price and it sticks they are happy.

Get a mr cool universal

​​ The low pressure switch was tripping open dropping open, droppinge contactor, turning it off. That is a real common place for those to leak. Easy repair.

I agree. Specially when dealing with HVAC

Don't want to go with me on the repair? Then you still owe me $150 for the service call. Your line of reasoning is ridiculous.

@@gamewizardks Understandable why you feel that way. I just pad 3 techs a trip charge to repair my AC. The 1st two techs were capable but didn't want to put in the time to diagnose and repair the issue. Shotgun maintenance. 3rd tech troubleshot my AC problems to my condenser fan after verifying my capacitor was good. Yes I paid Extra but I found a reliable tech I can call for all future AC problems and that was worth the extra money. The 3rd tech verified that the 2nd was also trustworthy but not as diligent in his craft. You can have 150 thats nothing compared to the money my guy will get replacing both of my complete systems. Upstairs and downstairs.

MRCOOL DIY Universal 5 Ton 54,000 BTU 17 SEER Split System AC with 25 ft. NoVac Install Kit 208/230-Volt They have DIY units you can buy this is a 5 ton system that would cool roughly 2,500-3,000 sqft they have other units that come pre packaged with an air handler as well for easy DIY install. If your mechanically inclined and can follow directions you can replace the system yourself with 10 year warranty and it costs roughly 3,500$-6,000$ for the system depending on the size and brand. Trane and Carrier make similar units. This exact one I put on here will cool 2,500-3,000sqft. 5,400$ with 10 year parts (I’m a commercial HVAC tech) a lot of people don’t know they sell these systems and you don’t need an EPA license to replace or install because the line set is pre charged and you won’t be dealing with refrigerant

It does not cost that much. It cost 450 dollars for a 25 lbs canister. This guy is robbing people blind.

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Yes! great thinking. I did check the indoor coil as well as the furnace. There will be a full length video of this call coming out soon. Hope you subscribed so you can be notified when it comes out🤞🏼

hes not dishonest he is giving them both options to repair or replace it you are doing your client a disservice if you just do an expensive repair without fiving them the option of getting a new system

Hmm. Never said it wasn't repairable bud. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Are you even in the trade? He gave them options that's a tech supposed to do. Been in the trade for 30 years

The customer actually went with the repair (video coming out soon). It ended up being around 2,800 for everything.

​​@@HVACTechTipsI don't question the 2800 dollar repair, but the unit is old. When the next repair occurs , you could have applied the 2800 to a new unit plus the cost of the next repair. It happened to me. Better to replace any unit over 12 years old in my opinion.

it's 10 yrs on new equipment now...

@@sumdumguy4659 I have ones from the early 90's running like tops

It's on turetechtools.com. Fieldpiece DR82

That's because you guys are just like car repair men now. Trying to rob people blind, all the time. You guys made your own name. Now everybody knows you're scammers.